{"id":9478,"date":"2013-04-17T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2013-04-17T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T00:30:56","slug":"west-virginia-sheriff-shot-to-death-in-his-car-eating-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/west-virginia-sheriff-shot-to-death-in-his-car-eating-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Sheriff Shot to Death in his Car eating lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lee Mueller<\/p>\n

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. – A drug-fighting West Virginia sheriff was shot to death as he ate lunch in his car on Wednesday and the suspected gunman was wounded and captured after a chase, police said.<\/p>\n

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Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum<\/p><\/div>\n

Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was at a parking lot in the city of Williamson when a man ran up and shot him, then fled in his own vehicle, Williamson Police Chief Dave Rockel said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Authorities identified the suspect as Tennis Melvin Maynard, 37, of Ragland, West Virginia.<\/p>\n

Maynard fled south on U.S. Route 52 about 8 miles when his vehicle crashed into a bridge, said Captain Dave Nelson of the West Virginia State Police.<\/p>\n

After the crash, Maynard got out of his vehicle, raised his weapon and was shot by a Mingo County sheriff’s deputy, Nelson said.<\/p>\n

Police officials did not say how seriously Maynard was injured. He was taken to a hospital in Logan, West Virginia, and then flown by helicopter to another hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, police said.<\/p>\n

The shooting followed other recent attacks on law enforcement officials in the United States, including the killings of two prosecutors in Texas and the Colorado prisons chief.<\/p>\n

Williamson is a coal-mining town of about 3,000 people in southwestern West Virginia.<\/p>\n

Crum, a former magistrate, took office as sheriff at the beginning of the year. He had launched a campaign called “Zero Tolerance” to clamp down on local drug trafficking, which centers on illegal prescription drugs.<\/p>\n

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund<\/a>\u00a0said 28 officers had been killed in the line of duty in the United States since April 3, 2012, including 13 killed with firearms.<\/p>\n

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The late Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum on Sunday, April 7, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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